Screen for cheese.



NITED STATES PATENT Patented May 30, 1905.

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SCREEN FOR CHEESE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,000, dated May 30, 1905.

Application filed July 14., 1904. Serial No. 216,611.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BARTnLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fruitvale,in thecounty ofAlameda and Stateof California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screens for Cheese; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Generally speaking, my present invention relates to improvements in screens for cheese; but to be more specific it is a screen especially adapted for use about the cheese in cases where the automatic cheese-cutters are employed. Owing to the peculiar construction of these computing or plain cheese-cutters, it is impossible to employ the usually-formed screens, and as a result the cheese is either covered with a cloth thrown about the machine, or more generally the cheese is left entirely exposed to flies or other insects. I

By the employment of my screen the cheese is always covered except during the operation of cutting, which latter process raises a portion of the screen simultaneously as the knife is raised, but it immediately descends with the :m e. Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In carrying out my invention I have not overlooked the requisites of strength and durability nor matters of structural simplicity and economy.

The objects of my invention I am enabled to accomplish by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the computing cheese cutter now generally used. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my screen removed from the cutter. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of the screen, taken in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2.

I will now set forth the general construction of my invention and subsequently explain the operation of the same, reference being had to the above views by letter.

The cheese-cutters now generally employed consist, essentially, of a stationary base A, from which extends the rigid vertical parallel standards B B. Between these standards B B is mounted a revolving disk C, on which the cheese is. positioned. Pivoted to the standards Band B is the arm D, which is provided with a suitable handle E. The cutting blade or knife F'is bolted or otherwise secured to this arm D in the position coinciding with a radius of the cheese. In order to permit of this knife swinging upward properly, the arm D has its pivoted points beyond the diameter of the cheese. Suitable mechanism is employed to turn this disk 0 a predetermined number of degrees, computed from the orignal weight of the cheese; but in the detailed construction and operation of this computing cheese-cutter I do not deem it necessary to dwell, as my screen is adapted to non-computing cutters as well.

My screen is constructed in two equal halves, semicircular in cross-section. The stationary half G of the screen is secured to the standards B and B, and between them, and under the arm I).

The movable half G of the screen is bolted to the knife through the medium of the lugs H. The slot I in the movable half G is for the purpose of entering the knife F.

Now it will be readily seen from the description so far goneinto that assuming that the two halves of the screen are positioned as above described as the handle E is elevated in the operation of cutting a segment of cheese the half G of the screen will move upward until it assumes the position shown by means of dotted lines in Fig. 3. As the handle is caused to descend the screen G will evidently assume the same motion.

As a variety of methods may be employed to secure the halves G G of the screen in the relative positions indicated on the computing or non-computing cheese-cutters, I did not deem it necessary to show such minor details.

For sake of clearness in the drawings I have indicated by means of heavy dotted lines the relative position of my screen.

The construction and arrangement of the essential parts of my invention being thus made known, the operation and the advantages of the same Will, it is thought, be readily understood.

I am aware that changes in the form and proportion of parts of the devices herein shown and described as an embodiment of my in conjunction With computing cheese-cutters having a pivoted blade, said screen being formed of a stationary portion and a movable portion, said movable portion being arranged to tilt simultaneously With said pivoted knife for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have sign ed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BARTELS.

Witnesses ELIZ. KINoAID, GEORGE PATTISON. 

